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Additional food for thought: Very many players couldn’t care any less about roaming in WvW or especially sPvP..
Then what do the very many players care about? PVE and dungeons? If that’s true, shouldn’t there be a bunch of new threads complaining about the vigor nerf instead of a bunch of new threads complaining about the nerf to DE?
What? Berzerker warriors are the dps meta? That’s like so 2012…
I was solo-roaming with the standard 0/20/20/0/30 condi war setup at that time, and the other two guys who were there with me seemed to be a power war and a meditation guard. Granted, the fact that they were coordinated and we were pugs made a difference, but they just seemed to shrug off our damage with their prot/heals/cleanses. I’ve roamed with d/d ele before, but it never really hit me how duo eles become so much stronger than a solo ele.
thanks for the tips, didn’t know that chill affected elemental attunement recharge. Next time i’ll go on my necro, spam attacks when his frost aura is up and send it back at him and see how it goes.
Hi guys! Me and 2 other people got facerolled by 2 d/d elementalists yesterday in wvw. From what I could observe they were both 0/10/0/30/30 boon duration eles and they were cycling through attunements such that none of them were in water attunement at the same time. Whenever we would immobilize or interrupt one of them the other would come in with updraft or earthquake or pop into water for aoe condi removal. What are some tips for taking on such a setup?
Took a look at chillruption. My initial impressions is that it relies on certain skills with pretty long cd, chaos storm, focus pull, gs 5 for aoe immobilization and chill. The major issue I have with that is it feels like I’m trying to take on a role the eles and necros can fill better. Are glamours still commonly used in wvw? I saw alot of “glamour is dead” posts after the confusion nerf.
I see what you mean. So basically play like a phantasm mesmer but take constant note of positioning to setup a unexpected shatterburst? If anything above 4 players cause effectiveness to drop, what are the builds that are more effective in these situations?
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What are some of the tactics you guys use for small zergvzerg fights? I play 20/20/0/0/30
shatter in wvw and my normal rotation is chaos storm on enemies>roll roll inside for some clones> f1 f3 f2 > phase retreat out, swap to sword/pistol and do a duelist, leap, frenzy, then there’s this period of time when I wander around because all my shatters are on cd and I’m feeling useless :/ Not sure if I’m missing something and wish to hear from experienced wvw mesmers. Thanks!
If i’m being completely honest those builds are way too over kill on defense, maybe slot in a few knight pieces with a standard zerker build, but that is way too overkill. Condition damage is a no go on elementalist for pve, healing power is also a no go, basically focus on damage stats and add in a bit more toughness or vitality. You keep mentioning you are a casual player, while I would consider myself better than an average player 2.6k armor and 17k health really necessary? I run with 2.1k armor and 11k health on my guardian and do all dungeons and 49 fractals no problem, I suggest you buy yourself a full set of zerker armor, go d/f with 30,30,0,0,10 and die a lot at first. After a while you will get better and dodge stuff. I think the saying is baptism by fire.
It’s a pvp build. Noone runs a condi/cleric ele with 4% crit chance in PvE.
If I’m not wrong, this build is a hybrid power/condi with the cleric and boon duration runes there for sustain. However, don’t you think you might be a bit weak offensively
with low attack and 4% crit chance, as well as zero critical damage? I’m honestly not sure if you will get more out of swapping the carrion pieces for some more power/crit based armor choices.
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Now look again at what happens if you blurred frenzied or even pressed f4, when he lightning flashed.
mesmer: 1 skill goes on cd
ele: all earth and air damage skills and all utilities go on cd
yep, the elementalist is perfectly viable
I play mesmer and i once again got instantly killed by an ele. He zapped at me and killed me with 2 sequential hits. I am not exaggerating here, 2 hits is all it took and they both occurred within a 0.5 sec time span. So what part of instagibbing, or in other words, a damage output that equals 23 k in 0.5 sec => 46 k/sec is not viable in pvp?
I play mesmer and i once again hit sword 2 and evaded for 2.5s, mitigating the 115k damage zap zap that the omgwtfpwnOP ele was trying to do. Then i dodged twice and hit f4 and mitigated another 138k damage. Then he ran away. omg. dodge button op. must nerf!
Its hilarious how you think im exaggerating in my post. Im not. I died within 0.5 sec time, period. And if that guy can do it, others can do it too, hence my question, what exactly is not viable about ele’s? But i guess the post above this 1 sums it up.
Go make a full glass ele and run around trying to burst people down. Oh, save up some gold for your repair fee hmm?
I play mesmer and i once again got instantly killed by an ele. He zapped at me and killed me with 2 sequential hits. I am not exaggerating here, 2 hits is all it took and they both occurred within a 0.5 sec time span. So what part of instagibbing, or in other words, a damage output that equals 23 k in 0.5 sec => 46 k/sec is not viable in pvp?
I play mesmer and i once again hit sword 2 and evaded for 2.5s, mitigating the 115k damage zap zap that the omgwtfpwnOP ele was trying to do. Then i dodged twice and hit f4 and mitigated another 138k damage. Then he ran away. omg. dodge button op. must nerf!
Was so excited when I saw those stats in the first post….until I saw the power :/
Ah…the good old times when dawn was 40g…
Then all the people who bought gems intending to buy flamekissed but didn’t get the chance to will start whining.
Lord Byron, you do realize after the skin is changed, if you’ve bought it, and really dislike it that much, ANet will most likely offer refunds for it?
Admittedly, I can’t see them refunding any Transmute Crystals used… You shouldn’t have needed any, unless you applied the skin to the wrong armor in the first place, which is your fault.
As for the this solution only screwing one side, consider it thus: If Anet DOESN’T change the skin, they’re completely screwing any human character who bought Tier 3 Light.
Most people have to work decently hard to get Tier 3, and you’re implying ANet should spit in the face of that work by changing the Tier 3.
Do you really believe that people who bought the skin crafted a new armor expecially for the skin?
Its obvious that MOST overwrote another SKIN they had on their armor.
Probbaly almoest everyone…..
We will lose CRYSTALS and THE OLD SKIN. (i put it on my celestial set i wouldn t for sure lose another month and gold to craft another).The reason behind this?
To preserve some people who paid it double or a sort of “lore”?Its the plain situation where the solution is WAY MORE UNFAIR than the problem.
As i said….
People who bought flamekiss did nothing wrong….
You want your lore preserved ASK for the T3 to be changed…..not the flamekissedLegendary weapon are supposed to be legendary…and to need a player to play eevery part of the game
What about deleting everyone that bought one?
People who bought T3 must have really done something wrong huh.
In fairness, Kasmeer also has an option of complaining about her Phoenix armor design being hijacked….
Marjory can complain about her hair lol. “wut when Anet designed me they promised I would have a unique hairstyle but now it is in the kitten bltp! kitten this! I quit!”
Your solution: Instead of deleting my skin, delete the skins of the people who got theirs first and change it to something else. Of course the people who bought the t3 cultural armors did not buy them for both their looks and uniqueness. That totally does not benefit you and totally does not screw all the players who bought t3 human cultural, yeah…
So, you buy a tv today because you like it. It has a lot of functionalities and the price is high, but you can afford that.
A week later they put a better tv and cheaper than yours, are you going to forbid people to buy it?
You was happy when you bought your tv, and they are happy with theirs, if you forbid them to have it, you are being a selfish and cheapskate (i’m not sure if this is the right word in english) person.
I have a norn with 2 pieces of T3 heavy armor, and i realy don’t care if they sell this for other classes, because it looks great on norns, but may look kitten in asuras or charrs. Same with the Flamekisser that look crap in fat norns and charrs.
Refrain from petty name-calling, doesn’t make you look good.
Let’s apply your analogy to one set of prestigious items. The problem with your analogy is that one item was NOT in the gemstore, while the cheaper and more adorned version is. What ArenaNet did this time around was take an armor mesh of a prestigious, expensive armor set, add flames to it, and sell it for alot cheaper. Not including the extra costs for the transmutation stones, it’s about a 50 gold difference between the two. Let’s also keep in mind that these are virtual armor skins in an MMORPG, a video game, not a television store where the primary goal is to sell you televisions, unlike in an MMORPG where the primary goal is for you to play a game, with microtransactions as a lesser goal.
I keep bringing this up, but let’s say several years down GW2’s life ArenaNet decides it’s time to profit on legendary weapons. They take several legendary weapons and reskin them, add more prominent particle effects, and sell them in the store for about 800 gems each.
We could use your analogy and tie legendary weapons to the Flamekissed armor skin. The armor itself is a skin, while the in-game T3 has yellow stats. The legendary weapon skins in the gemstore are skins alone, while the legendary weapons in-game have ascended stats, not raising any pay2win controversy while profiting off prestige items.
Do you blame the people who own legendary weapons when they get mad? Who is selfish here, the people who worked hard for their items, or the people who paid $10/half the amount of gold (59-65g) for their items?
What he said. Supporting Anet’s decision to release cultural armor to everyone in the gemstore is a slippery slope. Cultural armor is part of what distinguishes the different races. Why is everyone blaming the poor folks who already have human t3 and want to keep their uniqueness? Blame Anet for breaking their own lore and trying to earn easy money by releasing a lazy reskin! If you like that style so much, go make a human! I for one, do not want Anet to think that they can just earn my money by taking an existing skin and pasting on sparkles, flames, stickers, w/e
I don’t understand how people think that a moving warden (if it were to work properly) wouldn’t out perform a static one, especially in WvW.
A static warden placed on a ranged player is easily dodged and ignored putting your “shield” on instant 20s cd. I myself have done this everyday, and honestly have extremely little trouble with mesmers using a focus in WvW. Even the focus pull is mostly easily predicted and dodged.
If the warden were to work properly, the ranged target you place it on would constantly have to reposition, making the warden infinitely more useful.
I believe the others are saying that when the warden is static, they only have to stack on top of it to negate all projectiles. But when your “shield” is constantly chasing the ranged player, you constantly have to run after your shield in order to stack on him. With a static warden, I can just stand within his whirls and no matter how the ranged target repositions, he wouldn’t be able to hit me.
PS: though I have to admit I like the new warden better. Now when bosses wander around my warden is actually useful for more than 1 attack cycle instead of whirling like a kitten on the other side of the room…
To the best of my knowledge, having the iWarden spin in between you and the ranged player would reflect any projectiles they fire at you. You don’t have to be in the bubble to have it reflect.
That’s true, but with a warden between you and the ranged player, the ranged player just has to adjust his angle and he can hit you with projectiles. With you IN the warden, you have 360 degrees projectile reflection.
I don’t understand how people think that a moving warden (if it were to work properly) wouldn’t out perform a static one, especially in WvW.
A static warden placed on a ranged player is easily dodged and ignored putting your “shield” on instant 20s cd. I myself have done this everyday, and honestly have extremely little trouble with mesmers using a focus in WvW. Even the focus pull is mostly easily predicted and dodged.
If the warden were to work properly, the ranged target you place it on would constantly have to reposition, making the warden infinitely more useful.
I believe the others are saying that when the warden is static, they only have to stack on top of it to negate all projectiles. But when your “shield” is constantly chasing the ranged player, you constantly have to run after your shield in order to stack on him. With a static warden, I can just stand within his whirls and no matter how the ranged target repositions, he wouldn’t be able to hit me.
PS: though I have to admit I like the new warden better. Now when bosses wander around my warden is actually useful for more than 1 attack cycle instead of whirling like a kitten on the other side of the room…
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yup! thanks guys. it’s a tooltip bug.
Noob question here: is there a hard cap of 16s on phantasms? Because when traiting for either sword training or IC on my mesmer, my swordsman’s cd would drop to 16s, but the cd is still 16s if I take both traits.
This…is such a beautiful matchup thread. * feels an urge to bookmark *
If people wanted to pay to transfer it would be to a decent server, and until they make transfers to low tier servers free, SF just isn’t the server that most of the GW2 population would choose(nor AR or Kain for that matter).
QFT. The fact that everyone here is in bronze and is determined to stay and fight for their home servers despite anet constantly encouraging us to pay them money and transfer to more stacked servers…..
respect
The first post from your server is a comment on how the other two servers will make for a boring week for sf. Then comes a blatant recruitment for players from 2 servers that you are stomping. He also says that IF you transfer over, he’ll graciously show you noobs “how to play”. Then comes a comment on how Anvil Rocks are zerker noobs. Insert more posts on how everyone not from SF is “bitter and mad” next and how SF is so chill. Then SF starts talking about how the other 2 servers are crying and needing tubs to catch their tears. SF might be in the bronze league, but your server’s trash talking skills are certainly tier-1 material. Even if I was tempted to transfer over, after reading the kind of posts your community posts on matchup threads, I’ll say no thanks.
Correct me if i’m wrong, however I have seen a lot of negativity directed towards SF.
You’re not wrong. In fact, you’re absolutely right.
First of all, yes, one or two (and not more than that, thank you) posters from our server made some negative comments. Second, if you judge all of our server by that, then who is the hypocrite? But in your post you skip right over the blatant attacks and negativity from the other posters. Ironic is it not?
Like I said, nobody has said you do not have a right to be upset about someone posting, but look at it form all angles and not just down your nose.
From the angle I’m looking at most stacked servers don’t do the “sigh, it’s so sad now that I’m roflstomping everyone in wvw. Life will be boring.” When two other servers retaliate against that I clap and I say well done. The other servers might be negative, but when the representative statement from a server consists of “u mad bro? yes u mad. probably still mad. cry moar” how am I supposed to judged SF?
Judge those that make the comments, not the whole community. That is the point I am making. And yes, I am the one asking if he was mad and still mad. But only because he made the magnanimous statement grouping every person on SF into the same descriptive categories he was complaining about.
Same is true here. I like your post, it is well constructed and makes a valid point without trying to disparage others, direct or indirect. I only go after those that are gong after me or my server with no valid reason. He may have had a valid response to the one or two posters who said something before he did, but to go after all of SF for those forum warriors really just invalidates his rant.
Haha I guess that’s true. I think in a even matchup noone would have even given a shred of attention to those posts but SF is destined to be the “bad guy” this week lol.
The first post from your server is a comment on how the other two servers will make for a boring week for sf. Then comes a blatant recruitment for players from 2 servers that you are stomping. He also says that IF you transfer over, he’ll graciously show you noobs “how to play”. Then comes a comment on how Anvil Rocks are zerker noobs. Insert more posts on how everyone not from SF is “bitter and mad” next and how SF is so chill. Then SF starts talking about how the other 2 servers are crying and needing tubs to catch their tears. SF might be in the bronze league, but your server’s trash talking skills are certainly tier-1 material. Even if I was tempted to transfer over, after reading the kind of posts your community posts on matchup threads, I’ll say no thanks.
Correct me if i’m wrong, however I have seen a lot of negativity directed towards SF.
You’re not wrong. In fact, you’re absolutely right.
First of all, yes, one or two (and not more than that, thank you) posters from our server made some negative comments. Second, if you judge all of our server by that, then who is the hypocrite? But in your post you skip right over the blatant attacks and negativity from the other posters. Ironic is it not?
Like I said, nobody has said you do not have a right to be upset about someone posting, but look at it form all angles and not just down your nose.
From the angle I’m looking at most stacked servers don’t do the “sigh, it’s so sad now that I’m roflstomping everyone in wvw. Life will be boring.” When two other servers retaliate against that I clap and I say well done. The other servers might be negative, but when the representative statement from a server consists of “u mad bro? yes u mad. probably still mad. cry moar” how am I supposed to judged SF?
Thanks for the responses! The zergs on my server are mainly pugs, so when the commander does a flank maybe 50% will be left behind for the slaughter. Will ptv with zerker trinkets be too squishy for small zergvzergs? The zergs on my current server fluctuates between 20-30.
Hi guys, I’m planning to run a zerg support build with hammer/staff and shouts/WoR. Is it better to go for ptv or clerics? Is empowering might + AH the best for survivability or are there any better alternatives?
The first post from your server is a comment on how the other two servers will make for a boring week for sf. Then comes a blatant recruitment for players from 2 servers that you are stomping. He also says that IF you transfer over, he’ll graciously show you noobs “how to play”. Then comes a comment on how Anvil Rocks are zerker noobs. Insert more posts on how everyone not from SF is “bitter and mad” next and how SF is so chill. Then SF starts talking about how the other 2 servers are crying and needing tubs to catch their tears. SF might be in the bronze league, but your server’s trash talking skills are certainly tier-1 material. Even if I was tempted to transfer over, after reading the kind of posts your community posts on matchup threads, I’ll say no thanks.
Correct me if i’m wrong, however I have seen a lot of negativity directed towards SF.
You’re not wrong. In fact, you’re absolutely right.
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SF: All you kitten! umad bro? jealous? trololol. We haz pro tactics and this week will be so slooooow. Transfer to my server now if you dont want to stack up repair costs kthxbye!
Everyone else: zergkitten! numbers help you win, insert comment on no skill somewhere here You should all transfer to MY server!
Something like that.
I agree. The promised toning down of conditions didn’t come and the major trait that guardians used to counter it was cut to 50% effectiveness. The way I look at it, guardians should be the “counter” to necros. Necros apply conditions in a wide area, and guardians clear it on their allies. A grandmaster trait that lets you clear 3 aoe conditions at the cost of 3 utilities is kinda meh. Even shattered conditions is stronger than that.
Buffing underplayed builds instead of nerfing overplayed builds results in build diversity. Before this patch’s mantra buff, virtually noone ran mantra builds except as a novelty. That’s not the case now. Nerfing overplayed builds without buffing results in dying classes. Look at how d/d ele nerf killed most wvw eles and made them staffbots. Only with the fresh air buff and certain changes did different builds become alive again.
Tldr; Buffs increase the number of viable builds we can play with which is what we want. Nerfs reduce the number of viable builds we can play with which is what we don’t want.
Everything that brings down any class IS a nerf. Everything that brings up a class is a buff. Anet nerfs and buffs in order to bring balance. So every nerf and buff they make is a “balance”. In anet’s opinion, all the buffs you mentioned was to balance the warrior. Do guardian whine threads talk about how they fixed the bug with pure of voice? No, they talk about how anet nerfed pure of voice even though it was previously bugged. So there.
Anet: “Let’s give them a taste of reliable condition removal, maybe make burst builds viable as an alternative, let them rejoice for abit, then double the cd. Trolololol”
Or they could…ya know make you somewhat closer to everyone else in the game. Lets see…melandru runes, dogged march, cleansing ire, warhorn, zerker stance if you want as well (lemongrass in wvw) That luls at condis. So now you gotta worry about direct damage right? Shield block, healing signet, adrenal heal, endure pain, high mobility on most of your weapons…hmmm yea. April 30th gave warriors dogged march, and warriors have been getting significant buffs since then. I agree that they needed to be buffed, they were behind (even though I knew warriors that were smashing people prior to April 30th and they were using Burst skills /gasp) but 6 months of buffing? Really?
Melandru/lemon grass combo is available to everyone. No offense, but any class sounds impressive when you start listing all the different ways they have of clearing conditions. When you spec a class for maximum condition clearing, you get really good condition clearing. How many people have you met in wvw that does that though? I personally have never met a melandru/lemongrass warrior with x/warhorn x/shield. Warriors were not constantly buffed for 6 months. In fact, leg specialist was nerfed, empower allies was nerfed, heightened focus was moved from adept to grandmaster, berserker stance cd was increased. Instead of asking for nerfs for one class, which makes no one satisfied, why not ask for buffs for other classes, which makes everyone happy?
Anet: “Let’s give them a taste of reliable condition removal, maybe make burst builds viable as an alternative, let them rejoice for abit, then double the cd. Trolololol”
Eating a mango pie > runes of dolyak. Maybe rune of the soldier for the condition removal?
My current setup for solo roaming for camps/sentries/dolyaks
15/25/30/0/0, knight armour/traveler rune, with zerker trinkets, GS/ Sword&focus
Beats:
Rangers
Mesmars
Guardian
NecromancersToss-up:
Elementilist
ThievesLoses:
Engineers
Warriors1v2+ is almost impossible since the CD rely on bursting your single target and leaves you open against the other. The tradeoff is instantly capping camps which is what you want to do, get in and get out before the swords appear.
actually now that I think about it, I should run 10/25/30/0/5
Can I have some tips for speedcapping on guardian? Everytime I try to do that blinds just ruin my day.
KN stop pushing us while we’re trying to push HoD. Hit them at the same time kittenes!
Not gonna happen. Unfortunately, most of the Kaineng commanders left (who can only provide maybe 20% coverage) are ones who ignore the defense of an upgraded keep in favor of capping a supply camp elsewhere. How can you expect them to grasp that Kaineng should be hitting HoD?
And pls don think about running zerk gear withe ele stuff in wvw. It’s total waste unless you planning to head to frontline with conjure weapon. If not I recommend get full pvt.
So your recommendation is for full zerker eles to go frontline with a….conjured weapon? Where they’ll go toe to toe with hammer guardian/warriors? Okie I’ll try that.
Lol I started laughing when someone posted “roaming” + “staff ele”. Why would anyone roam with a staff when almost all staff skills are better used in zergs? The whole point of ele aoes is to force enemy zergs into lose/lose situations where they have to choose between more people dying, or ressing that nub on the floor, or building that particular ram and eating a full meteor + lava font.
there is 0 skill in running full glass cannon since 1 hit is dead.
The other guy must be as glass as you. So 1 hit him first?
ele in that sense for being SUCH a glasscannon should be able to 1 hit kill spike after doing an insane combo, of using all attunements,
You must have not have heard of s/d arcane burst builds which has been around for…a year.
Also you cant, i repeat you CANT move when casting meteor shower. its a ZONING skill not a killing skill.
so lightning flash.
Invite please! thanks!
you expect warriors to switch out their util’s just to counter one necro for 10 seconds and ruin their whole build?
Lol so I can just link a video of someone doing huge bursts and claim that class has the highest dps? Here i go…..
http://www.twitch.tv/nike_dnt/c/2533835
He also applies vulnerability, gives might, fury, and crit damage buffs to the whole party!